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#AmigaVision Help

    28-Jul-90 15:48:26
Sb: #AmigaVision Help
Fm: Karl Sparklin 71076,434
To: Lou Wallace 76376,2136
Lou- OK, you wanna give out some help on AmigaVision? Tackle this one! For eons, I have wanted to make an application that would selectively run through demos of the Amiga's capabilities, mixing all versions of pictures, animations, sound files, songs, etc. I know this is a horrendous task, given different file-formats, etc, but AV is very close by allowing passing lines of CLI out of AV. My problem is that I can launch tasks out this way but cannot terminate them if they don't stop themselves. Like sending out an ESC char after sending out "DynaShow Space.pic". This goes double for animations that can't be told to loop a number of times or for so many seconds. There are an awful lot of non-ANIM5 anims out there, and I've had only limited success converting them. So: Can you tell me how to send out a character to a previously launched task to terminate it? Thanks, Karl